--- On Sun, 26/10/08, Thalmann Pareira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From: Thalmann Pareira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: [Goanet] FW: GOA CPI(M) RALLY CALLS FOR STOP TO THE JOINT EXERCISES
> WITH U.S. NAVY
> To: "Goanet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Received: Sunday, 26 October, 2008, 6:08 AM
> Communist Party of India (Marxist)
>
> Date : 24 - 10 - 2008
>
> Press Release
>
> GOA CPI(M) RALLY CALLS FOR STOP TO THE JOINT
> EXERCISES WITH U.S.
> NAVY
>
> 1. Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, our first Prime
> Minister, in line with
> India's policy of anti-imperialism and non-alignment
> was of the firm opinion
> that the entire Indian Ocean should be a zone of peace and
> that U.S.
> imperialism should not have even a toe-hold on Indian soil.
> It was the
> intelligence information that Dr. Salazar (the then
> dictator of Portugal)
> was about to give Mormugao Port on long-lease to the U.S.A.
> for putting up a
> naval base here, which prompted Pandit Nehru to swiftly
> send in the Indian
> Armed Forces to liberate Goa on 19-12-1961. Pandit Nehru
> thereby prevented
> the setting up of a U.S. Navy base in the Mormugao Port
> which would have
> been a perennial thorn in the flesh of India.
This "intelligence information", apparently supplied by the then USSR was a
total fabrication. So also that Goa was to be NATO base.
Then again, "The Indians believed that the Portuguese had a squadron of F-86
Sabres stationed at Dabolim Airport — which later turned out to be false
intelligence.".
The "Pandit" Nehru seriously contradicted himself when he sent armed forces to
conquer Goa, Damao and Diu, which saw bloodshed. He should have given this
action serious thought if he wanted the Indian Ocean to be a zone of peace, and
acquiesced to his professed doctrine of peaceful co-existence.
Gabriel
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